Rural Cellular Corp. said it is acquiring PCS spectrum from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and one of its affiliates covering 1.9 million potential customers in Rural Cellular's Northeast region and 200,000 pops in the carrier's Northwest region.In connection with the purchase, Rural Cellular said...
The number of global wireless users will increase 49 percent during the next four years to total 1.72 billion by 2007, according to the Yankee Group. Analysts further predict subscriber revenues will reach $584 billion in 2007, compared with $387 billion in 2002, making...
Rural Cellular Corp. said it is acquiring PCS spectrum from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and one of its affiliates covering 1.9 million potential customers in Rural Cellular's Northeast region and 200,000 pops in the carrier's Northwest region.In connection with the purchase, Rural Cellular said...
DALLAS-Nortel Networks Ltd. reported it is the primary provider of Home Location Register infrastructure for Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s ongoing migration to GSM/GPRS/EDGE technologies. Nortel said the HLR technology is designed to track and manage individual subscriber information that is needed for the network to...
NEW YORK-The number of global wireless users will increase 49 percent during the next four years to total 1.72 billion by 2007, according to the Yankee Group. Analysts further predict subscriber revenues will reach $584 billion in 2007, compared with $387 billion in 2002,...
WASHINGTON-Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), co-chairs of the E911 Congressional Caucus, introduced a bill that will provide state grants to deploy wireless enhanced 911 service and will withhold those funds from states that divert E911 charges on telecom bills for...
MANKATO, Minn.-Midwest Wireless launched the first phase of its cdma2000 1x network, spanning 68 counties in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin and covering more than 50 percent of the carrier's total operational area and two-thirds of its licenses' potential customers.Nortel Networks Ltd., which provided the...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its CCC rating to Western Wireless Corp.'s $100 million convertible subordinated notes offering and placed the rating on CreditWatch with negative implications. S&P added that Western Wireless' B- corporate credit and secured bank loan ratings, as well...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp.'s InterDigital Technology Corp. subsidiary has signed a patent license agreement with Nakayo Telecommunications Inc. covering wireless terminal units and infrastructure compliant with TDMA-based PHS standards.Nakayo, which manufactures telecommunications equipment for the Asian market, will pay ITC an advance...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee on Wednesday called for the establishment of a federal grant program for the deployment of wireless enhanced 911 but said states that have diverted funds collected from mobile-phone subscribers should not be eligible. "We must stop states...
Midwest Wireless launched the first phase of its cdma2000 1x network spanning 68 counties in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin and covering more than 50 percent of the carrier's total operational area and two-thirds of its licenses' potential customers.Nortel Networks Ltd., which provided the CDMA...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW's planned overlay of its existing TDMA network covering portions of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Nortel said that with the...
DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW's planned overlay of its existing TDMA network covering portions of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.Nortel said that with the win,...
LOS ANGELES-Nokia's 1261 and 2260 TDMA mobile phones, equipped with Telemac Corp.'s Telemac CostControl billing and accounting solutions are now available to wireless operators. Telemac's technology enables the devices to monitor the value of all voice and data calls, charge usage values against a...
After moving out of the U.S. market and making a name for itself in the high-end phone business in Europe and Asia, electronics giant NEC Corp. is reopening its U.S. mobile-phone operation.NEC America Inc. will begin selling its advanced 515 GSM phone this summer...
Following another quarter of industry-leading customer additions, T-Mobile USA Inc. stepped up the competitive pressure on its larger rivals by introducing aggressive pricing changes to its rate plans.The most aggressive move was to reintroduce its Get More 1000 plan, which offers 1,000 anytime calling...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. reported a strategic alliance with International Mobile Communications Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, RSB Limited L.L.C., to offer wireless carriers the ability to extend CDMA and TDMA international roaming coverage to GSM networks using VeriSign's Interstandard Roaming service. The...
With the deadline for reporting first-quarter results last week, a number of carriers posted financial and operating results including another strong showing from nationwide provider T-Mobile USA Inc. and mixed results for rural operators.Seeming to be saving the best for last, T-Mobile USA Inc....
Mobile infrastructure revenue dropped 14 percent in the first quarter of 2003 to $6.4 billion compared with the fourth quarter of 2002, according to a report by the Dell'Oro Group. Credit Suisse First Boston has a further gloomy take, predicting a 20-percent decline in...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. reported $112.7 million in total revenues for the first quarter of 2003 compared with the $103.8 million the carrier reported for the first quarter of 2002. The increase was split evenly between the carrier's service, roaming and equipment sales revenues....
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. introduced a pair of Nokia Corp. handsets for its networks including the GSM/GPRS-enabled Nokia 6800 and TDMA-enabled Nokia 3560.Cingular said the color-screen Nokia 6800 is compatible with the carrier's 850 MHz and 1900 MHz GSM/GPRS network, includes flip access to a...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-TruePosition Inc. said Uplink Time Difference of Arrival location technology has been formally standardized by the Third Generation Partnership Project, which governs development and standards for GSM and UMTS networks.The technology already has been standardized for AMPS, TDMA and CDMA technologies,...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched GSM/GPRS service in a number of former TeleCorp PCS Inc. TDMA markets in Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee and Wisconsin and said service will soon be available in Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri and Puerto Rico.AT&T Wireless said that including...
